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Heroes has definitely been a fun thrill ride so far. One of the very few recent series I'd consider buying on DVD. Grindhouse looks interesting and would normally even be the kind of movie my wife likes (she likes horror/thrillers more than I do) but she doesn't care for Tarentino. We're...

WaMu has been rather easy to deal with so far. 30 year fixed @ 5.75 just wrapping year 4. Went through a broker who was very easy to work with; I'd recommend her to anyone in Chicagoland.

After being on all night the USB hub I mentioned was marginally - just slightly - warmer than room temperature.

They should be. I'm going to guess drive interface overhead may raise the seek time to as high as 0.1ms or thereabouts. Which begs the question .. would such a drive include or benefit from onboard cache?

I've got this D-Link hooked up to an AC supply and I don't recall it even getting warm. I'll double-check when I get home. I typically drive a mouse, WD Passport hard drive, Treo sync/charge, and Blue Tooth headset charge off of it.

Samsung going for a 64GB SSD in 2Q07. Now that's a viable notebook replacement drive. Adequate capacity and more than adequate STR. Too bad it doesn't mention seek times.

A friend was a 3rd shift supervising mechanical engineer at one of those steel plants in NW Indiana. He'd watch union guys clock in, go to the cafeteria, and sleep all night so they'd be fresh for their second (day) job elsewhere. Because of the union contract, they couldn't be fired even...

When I went to SF this morning I noticed all of my stored private messages were marked as unread. Not a big deal; I just marked them all as read again but I thought it was odd since they had managed to stay read during my hiatus.

I picked up one of http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=173 for my inlaw's laptop. Nice as the phone & network version has phone & Ethernet protection as well as power. It's small and it comes with a velcro strap to attach it to the laptop's power brick. And it costs under $20.

Just had a vendor-paid lunch at http://www.capitalgrille.com/Locations/Lombard/Main.asp?Location=Lombard . $222 for six people before tip and that was without alcohol. While I'd love a glass of wine I'm still too full.

Yes, they can lack precision. For instance, if your first test happened to be when 35 other people click 'speed test' the results may well vary from the second time, when only 3 others (possibly) were taking the test. So you're dependent on server load and bandwidth as well as your own...

Official Certified for/Works with Vista list: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/933305

5 Minute Management Course: Lesson 1: A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor. Before she says a word...

The card was under $50 after rebate; under $60 before so the price delta over a 4GB card isn't much. It's Patriot brand and has decent reviews. Frankly, I hate carrying extra cards, batteries, and chargers. While I have no choice on the battery & charger front I can eliminate extra cards by...

I think all of the current discussion on 64-bitness is hilarious as well. My midrange servers have been 64-bit since 1995. Our current production box isn't very big; just 2 POWER5 CPUs. But it's got 32GB RAM to handle some nasty Java workloads.

What happens in Vegas .. gets traded on eBay? FYI we don't use the cel phone lot for ORD. Instead we stop at the Tri-state toll 'oasis' just south of 190. It's just 3 or 4 minutes further from the arrival pickup area and you have free wireless access + all the comforts of Starbucks, Panda...

Well I adjusted it to Superfine mode and it's down to a mere 2575 pics on the 8GB card. :) DPReview and others note 200-250 shots/battery charge. More, obviously, if I use the fiew finder and turn off the LCD and/or disable the flash. I'll likely pick up one or two extra batteries. I've...

The camera & flash card arrived today. Wth the 8GB card I can supposedly take almost 4100 shots before it fills up.

I've been to Rochester a few times, but never to the Mayo. The IBM plant there is where the AS/400, er, iSeries, er, no, wait, what is it today? .. oh yeah! "System i" is manufactured. IIRC the IBM facility is the second largest employer in Rochester after Mayo. Congrats on getting your top...

The only other troubleshooting tip I can think of is to physically unplug power to the PC for a minute or two to clear/discharge the caps and potentially anything that may have goofed it up. Wait for the LED on the mobo to go out and then wait at least a few more seconds before reconnecting power.

I've been using Netgear stuff for a few years now. The 634U was not a good product; had lockup issues, possibly from overheating. The 624 seems to be pretty good. I'm currently on the WNR854T (pre-N w/Gigabit) and it's been great. My wife uses a Netgear SuperG PCI card in her desktop and it...

The Aeron chairs are very comfortable but you do need to adjust them first. Earlier ones without the "Y" lumbar support broke easily; the Y ones seem to be a lot better. They're finicky but very nice once set up properly. That said, IMO they're too expensive for the home office. When we...

I ordered the SD800IS + 8GB Patriot SDHC combo from Newegg. Under $400 shipped after a $10 rebate. Yes, 8GB is silly but it's a Class 4 card with decent reviews and the price is good.

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They closed both of the local CrapUSA stores by me last year. Funny thing was even their 'everything must go' prices weren't particularly competitive. LOST - I get ink at OfficeMax. You get $3 off for bringing in an old cartridge. I also have a friend who works in their corporate office so I...

Both my wife's car and mine have had rocks hit the windshields and damage them to the point of needing to be replaced. My wife's replacement windshield had to be repaired from another rock. Thankfully we have glass coverage on our auto insurance.

'Cause no one bid on my forum password when I put it up on eBay.

After all consideration we're still leaning towards the SD900. But I'm going to do my best to wait a week or so before buying (hard to do .. I just got my bonus). PMA 2007 is March 8-11 so I'll hold off to see if any interesting announcements are made.

Great explanation. I appreciate the time that post took. I'll talk with my wife about it. I don't recall there being many times when we've done low-light w/o being able to use the flash. The only times I can think of would be taking pix of the house at night while decorated for the holidays...

e_dawg, is there any reason you'd pick those over the SD900? Taking a quick look the only standout feature is improved zoom which doesn't matter too much for my purposes. A710: Too thick; not really a pocket camera. SD700: Not the current generation of processor but will read up on it anyway...

Time to replace my aging PowerShot G1. I'm currently looking at the SD900. Not so much for the high MP as for the quick response time and latest processor. Something compact enough to fit in a pocket is a must. P&S as well; neither my wife nor I ever really bothered to learn effective manual...

I'm not dead yet.

My point is simply that there are commercial CVTs mated to engines with a decent amount of torque. And that powertrain could be put to use hauling a reasonably heavy load. I would assume Nissan stress-tested the setup before approving it for production. While CVTs may not be the be-all...

Check the Nissan Murano for a mass-market CVT-equipped vehicle. It's 3.5L V6 is tuned for 245HP and 246 ft-lbs of torque and has optional AWD that brings the curb weight to about 4000 pounds. It's rated for towing another 3500 pounds. Edmunds notes the CVT improves mileage but comes at the...

Actually, you'd be surprised how much traffic there is at that hour. The house was purchased based on features. amenities, and price; i.e. bang for buck. We both work in the 'burbs so a drive to our respective employers was pretty much a given. I only go downtown periodically, like once or...

I never said rush hour. I'm an early riser and when I go downtown I'm usually out the door before 5AM. Mostly this lets me leave the downtown office before 3PM so I'm out before the afternoon traffic builds to much. Door to door is 44 miles. As to which commuter train, it's this one. I'd...

I wonder if it has more to do with the economies of scale. i/p/zSeries machines are in another realm entirely compared to Wintel. Things like reliability and scalability are far more important than commoditization. Counter that to our Wintel philosophy: Buy it with the 3 year warranty and...

For me to get from my home in the Chicago suburbs to our corporate office downtown Chicago involves one of the two following methods: - A 14 minute drive to a train station, paying to park the car, some amount of waiting for a train, a 44 minute ride to downtown Chicago, a few minutes to...

Mile number 111111 went by last week. Still no issues that make me want to consider buying a new car.

No, my brother sent it.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of 'hot x.x.x. galore'. While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", I muttered...

Never any problems so far. They mostly sell retail-boxed items. The OEM drives look like they probably arrive in trays. They're either individually sealed in anti-static bags or are in some form of a rigid case. IIRC the HDs are in a rigid case while the opticals are merely bagged. I like...

mubs, if you have a Microcenter near you (locations), they stock the Samsung OEM drives. They run about the same as Newegg, give or take a few $.

That WD external I mentioned in the Notebook Drives thread garners throughput around 25-26 MB/s respectively once the transfer size is 64 or larger. Transfer size: 0.5-1024 Total length: 32mb Direct I/O Overlapped I/O Queue depth: 4 ATTO is version 2.1

Not cheap, I'm sure. That company, I realized, services Europe. So I went to the Processor magazine site. Start here and drill in to End node - Storage - Systems for some direct-attach, NAS, and SAN options. Some have prices; many don't as they may deal with resellers only. I did catch a...

Well, I would have bought the Seagate at Fry's if they accepted AmEx. I didn't want to spend all day, a vacation day at that, going from store to store. I was hoping MicroCenter would have the Samsung Pleomax drives but they didn't. They had some externals from non-drive-manufacturers and the...

Merc needs a couple of these.

1. I believe in off-site backups. 2. Having the drive be portable is nice. For instance, when I noted my notebook's drive was dying I wasn't at the office and had no plans to be there for 3 days. 3. I also work from home one day a week and occasionally work from our downtown office. While I...

I explicitly wanted a USB-powered device. It's bad enough to carry a USB cable around; an extra power brick just adds weight and hassle I don't need. A close second was better size & portability. The new drive can fit in the front pocket of my slacks. Mostly, so far, I'm carrying it in the...

My employer has a few openings for accountants in Chicago & Westmont. The openings are due to growth from an acquisition. Client Accounting- Westmont - Account Payable Specialist - Account Receivable Specialist - Staff Accountant - Senior Staff Accountant - Senior Accountant Finance- Chicago...